It continues with an op-ed in The Washington Post on Why I commuted Maurice Clemmons’s sentence. On this issue, the problem conservatives have with Huckabee,
“„I can’t explain why he wasn’t prosecuted properly for the parole violations, or why he was allowed to make bail in Washington and was not incarcerated earlier for crimes committed there. I take responsibility for my actions, but not for the actions of others, nor for the misinformed words of commentators.